Why America Should Not Impose Homosexuality and Abortion on African Nations

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To what extent will America’s social engineering, namely the normalizing of homosexuality and liberalization of abortion, be a matter of strategic import to U.S. relations with African nations? Will the future of two regions be shaped by a growing secularism or be divided by questions of morality? Where does this leave people of faith, faith-based institutions, and faith leaders in their inter-continental dealings? And how will the international climate around these issues impact domestic politics within both the U.S. and African nations?

Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya

Over the last 42 years since the U.S. Supreme Court [SCOTUS] decision on Roe v Wade, Americans have killed well over 54 million unborn babies, some 15+ million being black. Arguably, the Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized homosexual marriage will have as significant an impact on America’s social landscape as did the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.

U.S. influence globally, within and without international agencies such as The United Nation, exports social policy abroad, creating clashes in Asia (e.g., China, Russia), Arab/Middle East (e.g., Iran, Syria), and African nations (e.g., Cameroon, Uganda, Benin, Kenya). However, unlike other key social [justice] issues, promoting homosexuality and killing unborn babies represent political shifts that challenge morality than politics that pursue morally.

Trafficking of children, refugee crises, and combating poverty have roots in moral imperatives consistent with our Creator. Conversely, sex-same relationships and abortion are arguably secular interests in-nature, conflicting with objective morality. As such, efforts to normalize these social constructs leverage political influence as opposed to appealing to innate ideas of inherent good.

The aforementioned questions and related discussions are resurfacing in the aftermath of President Obama’s meetings with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.